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A DUBLIN woman who emigrated to South Africa when she was 90 has died in her adopted home at the age of 108.

Kitty Ball, who was born in Skerries in 1901, moved to Knysna in the Western Cape 18 years ago to spend more time with her only child, Alice, her six grandchildren and great granddaughter.